Main street of Govan with the Silver Plate Hotel
about 1905 to 1915
A wide dirt main street lined with wooden false-front commercial buildings and plank sidewalks, with the three-storey Silver Plate Hotel at left and horse-drawn buggies and wagons parked along the left side. Handwritten labels above the buildings identify each business along both sides of the street.
What it says
Handwritten, top left: Silver Plate Hotel. Handwritten labels, left side of street: Livery / Gen. Store / Drug Store / Gent's Furnishings / Restaurant / Implement Shed / Lumber Office / Bank Handwritten labels, right side of street: Laundry / Bakery & confectio[illegible] / Printing Office / Gen. Store / Gen. Store & P.O. / Implement Shed / Furniture Store / Gen. Store / Hardware Signs on buildings: [HOT]EL / THE SILVER PLATE HOTEL / LAND OFFICE / [illegible]ET / GENERAL MERCHANDISE / HARDWARE / TH[illegible] / F[illegible] / [illegible] White writing at bottom, blurred: Govan Sask
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